From rssfeeds@jmason.org Wed Oct 9 10:52:52 2002 Return-Path: Delivered-To: yyyy@localhost.spamassassin.taint.org Received: from localhost (jalapeno [127.0.0.1]) by jmason.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93EA316F6F for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 10:51:54 +0100 (IST) Received: from jalapeno [127.0.0.1] by localhost with IMAP (fetchmail-5.9.0) for jm@localhost (single-drop); Wed, 09 Oct 2002 10:51:54 +0100 (IST) Received: from dogma.slashnull.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dogma.slashnull.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g9980XK25179 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 09:00:33 +0100 Message-Id: <200210090800.g9980XK25179@dogma.slashnull.org> To: yyyy@spamassassin.taint.org From: boingboing Subject: Palm-sized translators going to Iraq Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2002 08:00:33 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; encoding=utf-8 URL: http://boingboing.net/#85541017 Date: Not supplied The US Military is planning on equipping Gulf troops with two-way translators: Palm-sized devices with speech-recognition and automated translation. Tried speech-to-text lately? How about Babelfish? Boy, is this technology ever gonna suck: "Take he to that chemistry arm vegetable." Link[1] Discuss[2] (_Thanks, Nat[3]!_) [1] http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/Northeast/10/06/handheld.translator.ap/ [2] http://www.quicktopic.com/boing/H/eXMNyidbgPL [3] http://www.frii.com/~gnat/